Brian Turner:
Playlist
from December 6, 2011

Order and disorder in a freeform haze of terribly-played guitars, shorted-out electronics, found audio detritus, strange sounds from strange lands all around. Psych-punk-junk, collage, even pop. Lots of in-studio live performances to boot.

This inexplicable 10-inch record from 1969 is one of the strangest and most obscure private pressings you could ever hope to find. It contains a 24-minute psychedelic message from the distant future, presented with intermittent bursts of electronic music, feedback and ambient noise.
This recording is an "unauthorized experiment" that was made in the year 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon Dating System), a "blue verbal data feed" sent backwards in time to "retro A.D." by Decker, T. L., index J-3, CMR 00965 of T-Group Roaring Vectors 252, a human cyborg who suffers from a malfunctioning number nine electrode in his head which causes him to have an emotional breakdown as he records this message. It's a secret message to a past world he has trouble imagining, a retro world of foreign substances like metal, plastic, animals, soldiers... a world all "physical and slow," "all mechanical and disunified, before major coordinations."
An 8½" 20RPM disc containing this recording was found on the elevator at 205 W. 57th Street in New York City on February 11, 1969 by the composer Clark Gesner.
The only other known copy of this record resides in Box 44 Folder 7 of the Clark Genser archive at the Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division:
A 1973 issue of Radical Software magazine (Vol. II Nr 3) contains a partial (inaccurate and rather poorly comprehended) transcript of a little over half of this recording, as well as a letter from Mr. Gesner declaring this recording to be a part of the public domain. Here

Mueran Humanos (translated: Death To Humanity) are the duo of Carmen Burguess and Tomas Nochteff, two Argentine transplants to Berlin. Together, they've incorporated visual art and industrial synthscapes while utilizing some driving, processed bass guitar in the proceedings; they've been called a garage-rock version of Chris and Cosey. Dark elements of Suicide, DAF, Soft Cell abound amidst Spanish lyrics, they're less dancefloor and more expansive electro-psychedelia, and have a recent release on Sean from Cult of Youth's excellent Blind Prophet label. They stop by to perform on Brian's show today on their 2nd US tour. More at the band's site. VIDEO of today's set shot by Yvonne Szcemczak here!

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Vijay Raghav Rao

Suite For Two Sitars and Indian Folk Ensemble

Flute and Sitar Music of India

Universal

Listener comments!

Tue. 12/6/11 3:04pm
Matt from Springfield:
Cannabinholics Unite!

Tue. 12/6/11 3:05pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
I was just reading about this reissue the other day and was interested. Now I'm even more interested. Interesting.

Tue. 12/6/11 3:07pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
apropos title: check

Tue. 12/6/11 3:10pm
bill:
nostalgic album title: check

Tue. 12/6/11 3:11pm
dc pat:
idiotic label name: check

Tue. 12/6/11 3:16pm
Matt from Springfield:
@dc pat: Which one? The second track, or all of them?

Tue. 12/6/11 3:26pm
Hot Stuff:
Was this (Oh, Cherry) a Stones song originally, or did they cover it? Too damned lazy to Google. Too damned lazy to even get out of this chair and get a wedge of pie. zzzzzzzzzzzz

Tue. 12/6/11 3:31pm
Matt from Springfield:
Meme rock!
@bill: Hey, could you pass that digital salt over this way?

Tue. 12/6/11 3:31pm
bill:
Ooh! Thanks BT! I was hoping for this...

Tue. 12/6/11 3:32pm
Bloody Capt.:
WIKI - "According to a theatrical superstition, called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will cause disaster. A variation of the superstition forbids direct quotation of the play (except during rehearsals) while inside a theater.
Because of this superstition, the lead character is most often referred to as the Scottish King or Scottish Lord. Sometimes Mackers is used to avoid saying the name, mostly in North America."

Tue. 12/6/11 3:40pm
woooo:
herman cain is the peter grudzien of modern politics.

Tue. 12/6/11 3:40pm
Bloody Capt.:
"According to a theatrical superstition, called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will cause disaster. ecause of this superstition, the lead character is most often referred to as the Scottish King or Scottish Lord. Sometimes Mackers is used to avoid saying the name, mostly in North America." WIKI

Tue. 12/6/11 3:41pm
Spitzer:
Gary Hart!

Tue. 12/6/11 3:43pm
Farner:
THe world needs more extended guitar solos. Indie fascists have destroyed this expressive art and have championed instrumental mediocrity.

Tue. 12/6/11 3:43pm
bill:
Bloody Capt:
I've trod plenty of boards and have never ever heard of "Mackers." Somebody at WIKI's full of it. God help us it's probably the chief resource for most student papers.

Tue. 12/6/11 3:46pm
Farner:
Well, maybe fascists was a bot over-the-top. I love lots of Indie, but the blanket policy about soloing seems repressive. True, there are boatloads of bad solos, but when in the hands of a soulful artist, the end result can be transcendent. Stairway. Birds of Fire. etc.

Tue. 12/6/11 3:48pm
Loren:
Farner: check out Lenny White's "Prince of the Sea" for a great dual between Larry Coryell and Al Di Meola... pretty tight drumming as well.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:06pm
still b/p:
I was bummed that in the movie they decide to introduce a guy called Jimmy Two Times, but the only thing he says is "I'm going to get the paper, get the paper." And that's it -- gone, never heard from in the picture again.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:07pm
kata:
anyone who took high school spanish getting a whif of what she's singing about?

It says Suicide is "an American electronic protopunk musical duo", so that sounds about right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(band)

Tue. 12/6/11 5:25pm
Matt from Springfield:
YES!! 666 math answer during Brian's show!! Been a while since I got one of those!

Tue. 12/6/11 5:26pm
Marmalde kitty:
of course! Matt ;)

Tue. 12/6/11 5:28pm
Matt from Springfield:
But you gotta admit, "Dark Elements of Suicide" is an ideal band name.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:32pm
the glowing one:
but I think Soft Cell can't be right, they used more than one chord

Tue. 12/6/11 5:34pm
\|----------|/:
@Matt, you presumably are not aware that the band Suicide is a long-time favorite around here? So "Dark Elements of..." might seem derivative or too homage-y (makes a nice acronym though).

Tue. 12/6/11 5:37pm
Matt from Springfield:
@ \|-|/: Actually I wasn't aware (Algebra Suicide is one I remember, not related to this genre). An acronym can work if it helps make DES as one "thing" instead of refering to an earlier group.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:40pm
Cecile:
DES was a drug given to pregnant ladies who had miscarried in the 60s. It was disocontinued, but women whose mom took the drug are often infertile or have other lady-problems.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:41pm
Cecile:
also, cancer.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:41pm
corduroy moccasins:
DEoS is an acronym of System of a Down, with the 'e' flipped upside down, which ties in with the down!!! (not really) :O IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

Tue. 12/6/11 5:43pm
Matt from Springfield:
@MK: Well, "Dark Night of the Soul" and the names of bands on that show might bias me... :)

I'd say they could go either a New Order route, or else industrial like KMFDM or something.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:44pm
Cecile:
I hope the music DES won't f me up like the drug...

Tue. 12/6/11 5:46pm
Matt from Springfield:
"Diethylstilbestrol" -- and the victims "DES Daughters". I've heard of that now. Along with thalidomide, they really should have tested many of those drugs more thoroughly!

Tue. 12/6/11 5:47pm
Cecile:
It was just women. Their insides probably were too complicated so they just threw treatments up against the proverbial wall to see what stuck.

(sorry....)

Tue. 12/6/11 5:48pm
andymorphic:
i wish these guys were on tour....i'd love to see them

Tue. 12/6/11 5:48pm
Marmalde kitty:
DES has got to be the most depressing incarnation of an imaginery band for a long time!

Tue. 12/6/11 5:49pm
Cecile:
But what's ironic is that the nausea thalidomide counteracted was nothing compared to the suffering kids had being born with flippers, and DES didn't do a thing to stop miscarriages.

Tue. 12/6/11 5:50pm
Cecile:
And thalidomide was illegal in this country. But it wasn't in Europe and the Caribbean!

Tue. 12/6/11 5:52pm
Marmalde kitty:
the three or four of us should definitely start this band! tons of themes and storys etc could be big ;)

Tue. 12/6/11 5:53pm
Matt from Springfield:
"What's been troubling you today? You're depressed...because of a music band? And the band isn't real, but imaginary? What...." :)

Tue. 12/6/11 5:54pm
corduroy moccasins:
I will be the '5th' DEoS'r, the one who left before the imaginary band imagined itself to the big time.. K I QUIT - YOUR EGOS ARE TOO BIG. I CAN"T WORK LIKE THIS....

Tue. 12/6/11 5:54pm
Matt from Springfield:
"The lyrics of DES are biting, infused with themes of depression, and reference numerous medical malpractice incidents over the 20th century"...